No way am I linking to the whole thing, which looks massively illegal. None of the government workers whose details are listed look to be connected to the Dallas dustup. They’re from all over the country and most appear to be military employees. You’ll find more details at rt.com.

Meanwhile, in another corner of the internet, a much, much smaller band of Brown’s partisans were plotting their own retaliation against the FBI right here in Dallas. Their current plan is to flood the agency’s outpost with cheese pizzas.

No kidding. We bring you behind-the-scenes coverage, straight from the Anonymous chat rooms:

I don’t think it worked.

== 3:30 p.m. ==

Screengrab of Barrett Brown from a YouTube video posted on September 12.

Barrett Brown, the self-proclaimed spokesman for the hacker group Anonymous, was arrested in Dallas last night, Dallas Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Carmen Castro tells The News this evening. She says he was booked in shortly before 11 p.m., then “released over to the FBI” this morning.

“There’s nothing listed on his profile for any offenses,” she says. “I’ve tried to reach the FBI myself, and they said they don’t have anything to share.” Which is the same response The News has received: Earlier today we were told to expect a comment by this afternoon, but shortly after 4 p.m. Katherine Chaumont, the FBI’s local spokesperson, said there will be no comment today after all. And she’s not sure about tomorrow either.

The reason for Brown’s arrest is unknown, but California-based law firm Leiderman Devine tweeted that the reason was for threatening an FBI agent. Wired’s Threat Level blog has more details about the background about the possible threat that led to the raid.

…he posted a long and rambling YouTube video in which he talks … about retaliating against an FBI Agent named Robert Smith after he learned that his mother might be hit with obstruction of justice charges for an incident related to a laptop belonging to Brown that he apparently hid.

Brown's mug shot from a previous arrest in March 2009

It’s toward the end of the video that Brown makes his threat: “Robert Smith’s life is over. So when I say life is over, I don’t say I’m going to kill him. But I’m going to ruin his life and look into his [expletive] kids because Aaron Barr did the same thing and he didn’t get raided for it. How do you like them apples?”

He goes on: “Any armed officials of the U.S. government, particularly the FBI, will be regarded as potential Zeta assassin squads and … they know that I’m armed … and I will shoot all of them and kill them if they come and do anything because they are engaged in a criminal conspiracy and I have reason to fear for my life, not just from the zetas but from the U.S. government.”

Leiderman Devine tweeted earlier today an arraignment was scheduled for Thursday. The California-based law firm confirms it represents Brown, but per a tweet moments ago it’s no longer able to do so long-distance — as in, “Barrett needs a local Dallas atty ASAP. Current counsel can’t continue.” Shortly before that, someone at the firm tweeted that Brown “will be held in federal detention in Dallas pending trial on threatening a federal agent charge.”

Thursday evening, Jay Leiderman said he’s ben told Brown is being held at a Federal Detention Facility in Seagoville, and that he will be held there through trial “unless the ruling is revisited.” And he confirms, once again: “Is is the threatening an agent charge, and it is based on those videos.” He says he’s been told the FBI raided Brown’s apartment, took him to the county jail, then picked him up this morning. Leiderman also says Brown is now being represented by a federal public defender.

“The FBI will turn over reports through discovery, which may shed more light on their thinking process,” Liederman says. “But I don’t know how much more light, given we think this is a closed universe of possibilities — by which I mean that YouTube video.”

Brown and other individuals were participating in a video chat last night when the raid occurred and audio was captured of law enforcement agents bursting into saying “You’re going down! Get your hands down!” Watch the video here, but note that the audio contains adult language and loud noises.

Brown’s history in Dallas spans back more than a decade. In a March 2011 profile by D Magazine, Brown talks about working as an intern at The Met, the late local alternative weekly magazine, before eventually beginning collaboration with Anonymous in 2006. Since then he’s claimed responsibility for bringing down the Church of Scientology and the attacks on Visa and Mastercard relating to a frozen Paypal account for Wikileaks.

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